Posted on 09/24/2014 2:51:51 PM PDT by markomalley
President Barack Obama favorably quoted and praised on Wednesday in his speech before the United Nations a controversial Muslim cleric whose organization has reportedly endorsed the terror group Hamas and supported a fatwa condoning the murder of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
Obama in his remarks offered praise to controversial cleric Sheikh Abdallah Bin Bayyah and referred to him as a moderate Muslim leader who can help combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL or ISIS) radical ideology.
However, Bin Bayyah himself has long been engulfed in controversy for many of his views, including the reported backing of a 2004 fatwa that advocated violent resistance against Americans fighting in Iraq.
This is not the first time that the Obama administration has extoled Bin Bayyah, who also has served as the vice president of a Muslim scholars group founded by a radical Muslim Brotherhood leader who has called “for the death of Jews and Americans,” according to Fox News and other reports.
The State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau (CT) was forced to issue multiple apologies earlier this year after the Washington Free Beacon reported on its promotion of Bin Bayyah on Twitter.
“This should not have been tweeted and has since been deleted,” the CT Bureau tweeted at the time after many expressed anger over the original endorsement of Bin Bayyah.
However, it appears that Obama and the White House are still supportive of Bin Bayyah, who, despite his past statements, is still hailed by some as a moderate alternative to ISIL and al Qaeda.
“The ideology of ISIL or al Qaeda or Boko Haram will wilt and die if it is consistently exposed, confronted, and refuted in the light of day,” Obama said before the U.N., according to a White House transcript of his remarks.
“Look at the new Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies—Sheikh bin Bayyah described its purpose: ‘We must declare war on war, so the outcome will be peace upon peace,’” Obama said, quoting the controversial cleric.
Concern over the administration’s relationship with Bin Bayyah started as early as 2013, when outrage ensued after he was reported to have met with Obama’s National Security Council staff at the White House.
While Bin Bayyah has condemned the actions of groups such as Boko Haram and ISIL, he also has taken controversial positions against Israel.
He issued in 2009 a fatwa “barring ‘all forms of normalization’ with Israel,” according to a Fox report on the White House meeting.
Additionally, the notorious 2004 fatwa permitting armed resistance against U.S. military personnel in Iraq reportedly stated that “resisting occupation troops” is a “duty” for all Muslims, according to reports about the edict.
Patrick Poole, a reporter and terrorism analyst who has long tracked Bin Bayyah, expressed shock that the Obama administration would endorse the cleric on the world stage.
“It is simply amazing that just a few months ago the State Department had to publicly apologize for tweeting out it’s support for Bin Bayyah, only to have Barack Obama go before the leaders of the entire world and publicly endorse Bin Bayyah’s efforts,” Poole said.
“It seems that nothing can stop this administration’s determination to rehabilitate Bin Bayyah’s image, transforming him from the Islamic cleric who issued the fatwa to kill Americans in Iraq and calling for the death of Jews to the de facto White House Islamic mufti,” he said.
This type of mentality has contributed to the administration’s foreign policy failures in the region,” Poole said.
“This is a snapshot of why this administration’s foreign policy in the Middle East is a complete catastrophe,” he said. “The keystone of their policy has been that so-called ‘moderate Islamists’ were going to be the great counter to al Qaeda. But if you take less than 30 seconds to do a Google search on any of these ‘moderate Islamists,’ you immediately find they are just a degree or two from the most hardcore jihadis and have little to no difference when it comes to condoning violence.”
A White House official said that the president’s remarks speak for themselves and declined to add anything further.
Obama is an anti-american Muslim. His reign of terror will end early 2016.
Grrrrrr...
Of course Obama would support a Hamas lover, Obama himself supports Hamas and Hezbollah..Ive never heard the schmuck ever refer to Hamas as a terrorist organization, he is too busy bashing Israel..on the first night of Rosh Hashanah..he is a disgrace!!
The Congressional EXEMPT fiddle, while AMERICA BURNS!!
I think that a case could be made that a Muslim leader who advocated violent resistance against Americans fighting in Iraq and belonged to a group that has called “for the death of Jews and Americans” is indeed a typical "moderate Muslim".
Which should give us pause whenever someone claims that "moderate Muslims" are in the majority.
IslamoNazi-in-chief attacks America again. Every hour on the hour...
Someone in Wash D C should ask whose side he is on.
I just finished swearing at the TV after hearing the POS point before the UN to Ferguson Mo as a problem we have here. This CS has now gone far again in his constant denigration of this nation. IMO, if he hates it so much here, why not do us all a favor, resign, and go live in some Muzzie Hell Hole. In fact, I will be happy to pay the fare both for him and his fat alleged wife. And they can take Hitlery with them.
it ought to end now, the dude is clearly a traitor to this country and I’d bet his best crime is yet to come
The man is a disgrace. If he had even an ounce of honor, he would commit hari-kari. (wishful thinking)
One of the very few times the Obamatollah has kept his word.
Boehner, you Judas!
HF
and he’s continuing to import/allow more and more enemy agents into America, hour by hour, day by day
we need to start discussing just how all these IslamoNazis can be (someday?) rounded up and (to be nice about it, at least...)sent back to Krapistan/Saudi/Iran/Somalia/Syria/you name it
What kind of shock? Shock as in, "omg he really is on the Muslim side after all!" or shock as in, "omg he really is too stupid to know he just endorsed a terrorist!" or shock as in, "omg, he just let the truth slip!"
It matters, if he calls himself a terrorism analyst.
We don’t have the money to round them up and send them back.
Surely there’s some other solution.
There is NO QUESTION that odumbo is a muzzie, need he give us any more proof?
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